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As digital threats continue to proliferate, cybersecurity has become a strategic priority for Europe. Sabotage, cyberattacks, and foreign interference campaigns: critical infrastructure, information networks, and digital spaces have become invisible but decisive battlegrounds. Attacks against submarine cables, data centers, and public communication networks highlight the fact that digital security still relies on insufficiently protected physical and human infrastructure.
To address these challenges, the European Union promotes an open, collaborative and sovereign approach to cybersecurity, in line with its democratic values. Through its cybersecurity strategy and Global Gateway initiative, the EU is working to strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure, public administrations and businesses, while developing its digital cooperation capabilities with international partners.
In this context, public technical cooperation plays a key role. Development cooperation agencies, brought together within the network of practitioners and the Digital for Development Hub, have an essential role to play both in strengthening the security of critical infrastructure and in developing digital skills within partner administrations.
Co-organised by HAUS (Finnish Institute of Public Management, Finland) and Expertise France, this Rendez-vous de l’Expertise brought together perspectives from the Nordic, Baltic and Western European regions on how to build a secure and democratic cyberspace.
Through testimonials from field operators, technical experts and institutional actors, the event explored how cybersecurity is becoming a strategic lever for sovereignty and international cooperation, whether it be securing digital infrastructure, strengthening governments’ cyber capabilities or raising public awareness of cyber hygiene.
Ahead of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, (re)watch our latest #RDVExpertise from February 2026, live from Helsinki, for some fascinating discussions!
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CEO of Expertise France
Managing Director of HAUS
Director General of the National Cyber Security Centre Finland - Traficom
Analyst at the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
Vice President, Resilience and Defence, of Elisa
Cybersecurity Expert
Awareness Officer for Cyber Risk Prevention at CyberMalveillance
Advisor on Digital and Cyber Diplomacy at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Project Manager at Cyber Citizen Initiative
Research Fellow at Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)
CEO and Founder of Forbidden Stories
First Councellor at the French Ambassy in Finland
Moderator